bowl
- Museum number
- Oc.1800
- Description
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Oil bowl in the shape of a double canoe cut out of solid wood. Small loop of fibre.
- Production date
- !9thC (Before 1852)
- Dimensions
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Height: 5.50 centimetres
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Width: 44 centimetres
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Depth: 17 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Marked in ink: 'Fiji Ids'
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Similar dish illustrated in Clunie, Yalo i Viti: Shades of Viti: A Fiji Museum catalogue, Suva, Fiji Museum, 1986, p. 91, 171
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Hooper (2016:239) notes that 'few of these oil-saturated dishes in the form of a drua, a double-hulled canoe, survive...This example has a distinctive linear design of reversed trinagular forms engraved around the 'deck'. There is a neat hole and hibiscus fibre suspension cord through the side of the deck o n the cama (outrigger hull) side...is probably made from vesi'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2016-2017 15 Oct-25 Feb, Norwich, UEA, Sainsbury centre, Fiji: Art and life in the Pacific
- Acquisition date
- 1866
- Acquisition notes
- From the HMS Herald SW Pacific expedition of 1852-1861.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc.1800
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1866C1.1800 (old CDMS no.)